![]() ![]() The four stories in The Door in the Hedge follow that same pattern, though two of the stories are touted as original creations, versus re-imaginings. ![]() This was Robin McKinley’s second published work, after her very well-received first novel, Beauty (1978), which was a creative retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. And this re-reading proved me right on that count, though I was pleasantly surprised to find that the two stories Jenny liked the most, The Princess and the Frog, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses, were really pretty darned good, and my own favourites of the collection, too. I knew I’d read this collection of four short fantasy-fairy tale retellings before, but I honestly could not drag up any strong memories regarding it, just that I had mentally filed it in the “wordy” category of McKinley’s writings. Nudged on by a comment from Jenny (of the former Jenny’s Books, now all spiffed up and better than ever at Reading the End) on my yesterday’s post about Robin McKinley’s later book of short stories, A Knot in the Grain(1994), I temporarily sidelined (again!) the Agatha Christie ( The Murder on the Links) that I was sporadically reading and settled down to a power read of The Door in the Hedge instead. The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley ~ 1981. ![]()
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